January 2025
Art activists join together to advocate for funding at Kansas State Capitol

Madison Arts Commission (WI) call for art

Art Encounter receives $28,000 grant from NEA to expand in-school art program (Chicago, IL)

NE Ohio Is Buzzing with Ways to Celebrate Dr King’s Legacy

Thousands enjoy art on a frozen Minneapolis lake despite bone-chilling temperatures

South Bend Museum of Art (IN) seeking entries for ‘Biennial 33’ exhibition

\Art Museum Directors Increasingly Fear Censorship, But Few Have a Plan to Deal With It

‘One of the Most Impactful Art Losses Ever’: Insurers Start to Assess LA Wildfire Damage
#midwestagendaartnews #losangeles #wildfire #destruction #devestation #artcollection #artinsurance
Des Moines Art Center to Demolish Work and Pay Land Artist $900,000

Get a tiny, original artwork for only $5 from this unique vending machine Cincinnati, OH)




Augmented Reality Unveiling Party For Alton (IL) Mural Featuring Miles Davis
Painter Meg Lionel Murphy Finds Power in Feminine Giants (Door County, WI)

#midwestagendaartnews #artist #domesticviolence #meglionelmurphy
A Creative Life Exhibit Opens at VCSU Art Gallery (Valley City, ND)

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch

After part falls to floor, artwork at Kansas City’s airport terminal likely gone for good

Artlink’s ‘Midwest Regional’ showcases talent from Fort Wayne (IN), beyond

Beck Center for the Arts presents The Superhero Project (Lakewood, OH)

Incarcerated artists find creative outlet through annual U-M exhibition (Ann Arbor, MI)

Land artist Stan Herd returns to Dodge City (KS) to repaint his iconic mural

A tale of two art magazines: one celebrates human-delivered arts in Kansas City, one is dedicated to AI art


#midwestagendaartnews #humanartist #artificialintelligence #art #artist
3 Minneapolis art exhibitions to see during the sleepiest week of 2024

December 2024
‘27 years of goodbyes’ thrust Kansas photographer to unexpected international acclaim

‘Niimiwin’ art exhibit celebrates the powwow tradition (Minneapolis, MN)

Youngstown (OH) Cultural Legacy show to honor recently lost artists

Museum In Wisconsin Houses A Jaw-Dropping Quilts Collection

Court ruling states UMB acted properly in managing Thomas Hart Benton Trust

Schools in central Iowa use art of origami to meet geometry standards for Iowa mathematics

Arctic winds create mysterious frozen sand sculptures along Lake Michigan beach

Nikki Giovanni was a walking revolution

Woman Transforms Historic African-American Doll Collection Into A Free Museum In Omaha (NE)

Ethereal, Glowing Curtains Drape Over Lake Michigan in Reuben Wu’s Light Paintings

Illinois artist builds ‘world’s tallest glass tree’ from recycled bottles

Tiff Massey’s ‘7 Mile + Livernois’ exhibition is a tribute to Black Detroit


Toledo Museum of Art makes historic art acquisition using cryptocurrency

The lore of Leigh Bowery
Thirty years after his death, his legacy is about to live loud and proud at Tate Modern

A Kansas artist’s love for his wife lives on as a Christmas tradition in Lindsborg


Evanston Made (IL) clinches $1.2 million grant, city funding, to open arts center

OpenAI’s Sora Tool Leaked By Group Of Aggrieved Early Testers

Canton Museum of Art exhibit explores the avant-garde spirit of Cleveland’s Kokoon Klub

Art exhibit at Tennessee university museum draws controversy
Free speech and Christian faith at loggerheads again

Historic Land Transfer to Osage Nation Facilitated by Arts Group (St Louis, MO)

Skylab Gallery to host final show before eviction (Columbus, OH)

An online collection of ‘outsider art’ enters the real world for the first time in Des Moines (IA)
